Reply: the same innate notes that show divinity also show essential integrity
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Rome is caught in its own snare — the integrity demand forces the reply their Scripture objection needs.
As Scripture needs no second word to prove its divinity, because it is the first rule known by innate signs and motives,
so it needs no second word to prove it uncorrupted and integral.
The same path that shows it divine shows it integral and sincere — at least in momentous and essential matters.
Latin
XXXVIII. Hic certe Pontificii constringuntur propriis laqueis, neque se possunt expedire quin objectioni suae responsionem subministrent. Sed respondeo quod sicut non opus est alio Dei verbo, cujus testimonio probetur Scripturam sacram esse divinam, quia Scriptura sacra est prima fidei regula, in qua fides nostra sistitur: Ipsa vero per se innotescere potest ex signis & notis insitis, aliisque argumentis & credendi motivis, quibus possunt fideles sufficienter moveri ut illam amplectantur ceu veram & divinam: ita quoque non opus est alio Dei verbo unde discamus Scripturam incorruptam & integram esse. Nam unde discimus illam esse divinam, inde discimus illam integram & sinceram esse, in rebus saltem momentosis & essentialibus.